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   On 09 May 22  07:02:02, Jas Hud said the following to Nick Andre:   
      
   JH> like i said, if you have a community that wants to help, that would benefit   
   JH> the product.   do you really need help or feedback? or are you the type of    
   JH> person who doesn't want help or feedback?    
      
   Help or feedback about how my software runs is one thing and in neverending   
   supply. Help with porting an obscure database library into something a   
   modern compiler can digest is something else. I have no help with that. But   
   I did get some nice feedback... "uhh yeah Nick good luck with that".   
      
   You keeping using that word community but I do not think it means what you   
   think it means. There is no community of BBS/Fido developers. They are few   
   and far between nowadays and they are often busy with their own stuff.   
      
   If you believe that me, G00R00, Rob, Andrew, TJ are all best friends sitting   
   on some magical wonderful Discord channel happily helping with eachothers code   
   with flowery emoticon-ridden feedback you are grossly mistaken.   
      
   JH> in g00r00's situation he yanked the source because someone posted it on hi   
   JH> website.  he said nobody was helping.  those guys have a small fishbowl so    
      
   Seems to me G00R00 and Mystic are doing just fine for a closed-source program   
   that even the militant Linux keyboard warrior fanatics preaching about   
   open-source-everything just seem eager to have it installed and running like   
   kids opening Christmas presents. Hence my remark about moving goalposts.   
      
   My understanding is that you can do "everything" with the Mystic script    
   language or whatever it has. So how exactly will Mystic be improved by making   
   it open source? You mention collaboration. On what part exactly? How will many   
   likely incompetent people messing with its code benefit the average Sysop?   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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